Professor Nikos Chronis is the founder and director of the BioMEMS for Life Science laboratory at the School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). His research spans Micro/Nano Electromechanical Systems, Micro/Nano Engineering & 3D printing, Point-of-Care Systems, Microfluidics, Biosensors, and Smart Antimicrobial Microsurfaces.
He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley (2004), where his thesis focused on “Lab-on-a-Chip Mechanical and Optical Components for the Manipulation and Detection of Biological Samples” under the supervision of Prof. Luke Lee. He earned his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, graduating first among 145 students.
Before joining NTUA, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Rockefeller University, 2004–2006), then served as Assistant Professor (2006–2012) and Associate Professor (2012–2020) in the Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Departments at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He subsequently held an Associate Professorship at the Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete (2020–2022) before assuming his current position at NTUA in 2022.
His broader interests include Technology Innovation, Translational Research, Spin-offs and Social Entrepreneurship, Global Health, Human-Technology Interaction, and Industrial Archaeology.